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Flyer Radio WUDR
Broadcast area	Dayton, Ohio
Branding	WUDR FM
Slogan	Music in All Directions
Frequency	98.1/99.5 MHz
Format	College Radio
Owner	University of Dayton
Website	[1]

WUDR (98.1/99.5 FM) is a non-commercial, college radio station located on the campus of the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio. The station is commonly known as Flyer Radio. Flyer Radio is a student-run radio station that offers variety music, sports, and talk shows. It operates on 98.1 and is simulcast on W258AI on the 99.5 frequency near campus (owned and operated by the University of Dayton).

Both students and professors are represented among the station staff. As a result, the programming schedule changes each semester depending on the current staff. Broadcasting at 13 Watts, and via webcast, Flyer Radio broadcasts music in a variety of genres:

• Indie rock
• Jazz
• Hip hop
• Pop
• Electronic
• World
• Folk
• Metal
• Punk
• Experimental
• Blues
• Country
• Oldies
• Latin

While the station primarily carries a music format, Flyer Radio also broadcasts University of Dayton sports including basketball, baseball, soccer, volleyball and women's sports.

Flyer Radio currently broadcasts from a new studio located on Art Street at the University of Dayton.

Through the mid-1990s, the University also operated a 50,000 watt commercial radio station, WVUD-FM (99.9 MHz), playing album-oriented rock (AOR). The station was know, colloquially, as "VUD", "FM-100" and "The Radio Station".

In the mid-1970s, WVUD became Dayton's first album oriented rock station providing an alternative to Top 40 -formatted WING. The airstaff was comprised of U.D. students. In the late 60s through mid-1970s, General Manager was University of Dayton Communication Arts Department Chairman George Biersack. Biersack hired back former WVUD staffer and UD grad Chris Cage Caggiano from WING-AM. Biersack's marching orders for Cage were to "grab the 18 to 34 year-olds" but to "avoid that WING sound". Music Director was Dan Covey, who later landed at WING. Cage was succeeded by Geoff Vargo.

WVUD-FM competed with WTUE-FM for dominance of the Dayton market. Utilizing a strategy of first-to-market "breaking" of new songs, a vast collection of record albums, and a lengthy song-rotation schedule (to keep the sound "fresh"), the station competed on its diversity of music and knowledge of artists and bands by disc jockeys. The station enjoyed stature and cache sufficient that touring major rock acts, such as Jackson Browne, Shawn Phillips, and Billy Joel, were interviewed live in-studio. Students staffed on-air slots, and personalities such as Patty Spittler, Dan Covey, Art Farkas, Alan McConnell, Dan Pugh aka Dan Patrick, Mary Kuzan, Jim Tobin ("Yost"), Keith Wright, and Dan Ross, competed successfully with much more experienced radio pros. After graduation, many WVUD "alumni" went on to attain significant professional career success in radio nationwide. On April 1, 1978, the station spoofed listeners claiming it had, overnight, changed formats to big-band 1940s music. Complaints to station management, from loyal, if disgruntled, listeners, were counted into the hundreds. So convincing was the transformation, that many did not realize it was an "April Fool's" joke. Normal operations resumed the next day.

Eventually, through the 1980s, WTUE won the ratings war. The University sold WVUD-FM in 1992, and the WVUD call sign was, subsequently, adopted by another college radio station in Delaware.

[edit] Past Presidents

Flyer Media created a new branch in its organization in 2006, instating an overarching position for both Flyer Radio and Flyer TV management. The President is selected by the University of Dayton's Electronic Media department. Below is a (complete) list of past Presidents:

• 2006-2007: Missy Apmann
• 2007-2008: Aaron Moores
• 2008-2009: Laura Steffey

[edit] Past General Managers

Every year, Flyer Radio has a new student General Manager, selected by the University of Dayton's Electronic Media department and Flyer Media President. Below is a (incomplete) list of past General Managers:

• 1994-1996: Tim Schulz
• 1996-1997: Mark Tetlak
• 1997-1998: Bridget McNie
• 1998-1999: Paul Frederick
• 1999-2000: Tom Costello
• 2000-2001: Jason Asp

• 2004-2005: Greg Hansberry
• 2005-2006: Jim Larrabee and Nathan Fernandes
• 2006-2007: Mike Ivcic and Nathan Fernandes
• 2007-2008: Laura Steffey and Casey Drottar
• 2008-2009: Jim Gazzale and Katie Sunday

[edit] Past Program Directors

Every year, Flyer Radio also has a new head of station programming, selected by the General Manager. Below is a (incomplete) list of past Programming Directors:

• 1994-1996: Mark Tetlak
• 1996-1997: Bob Taylor
• 1997-1998: Matt DiMarco
• 1998-1999: Tom Costello
• 1999-2000: James Klauke

• 2005-2006: David Jessop
• 2006-2007: Franny Thomas
• 2007-2008: Cory Griffin
• 2008-2009: Mike Kane

[edit] External links

• Flyer Radio official website
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WUDR
• Radio Locator information on WUDR